President Franklin D. Roosevelt (above) signed into law the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. Press photographers snapped
pictures as FDR, flanked by ranking members of Congress, signed
into law the historic act, which guaranteed an income for the unemployed and retirees. FDR commended Congress for what he considered to be a “patriotic” act.
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Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995)
Former New York Yankees star Mickey Mantle died of liver cancer
at the age of 63. While “The Mick” patrolled center field and batted
clean-up between 1951 and 1968, the Yankees won 12 American
League pennants and seven World Series championships.
He was an American League Most Valuable Player three times
and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
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June 15, 1953
CARALATA BRADLEY
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959)
DeMille is acknowledged as a founding father of American
cinema and the most commercially successful producer-
director in film history.
On August 11, 1973, the nostalgic teenage coming-of-age
movie American Graffiti, directed and co-written by George
Lucas, opened in theaters across the United States. Set in
California in the summer of 1962, American Graffiti was
nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Director
and Best Picture, and helped launch the big-screen careers
of Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford, as well as the former
child actor and future Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard.
The film’s success enabled Lucas to get his next movie made,
the mega-hit Star Wars (1977).
CAMILLE BOHANNON
On August 10, 1921, after a day of strenuous activity, 39-year-old
Franklin D.Roosevelt came down with an illness characterized by
fevers, ascending paralysis, facial paralysis, prolonged bowel
and bladder dysfunction, and numbness and hypersensitivity
of the skin. Roosevelt came close to death from the illness.
He faced many life-threatening medical problems including the possibility of respiratory failure, urinary tract infection, injury to
the urethra or bladder, decubitus ulcers, clots in the leg veins,
and malnutrition. Eleanor’s nursing care was responsible for
Roosevelt’s survival.
Most of the symptoms resolved themselves, but he was left
permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
Lieutenant Governor George Lunn, FDR, John W. Davis, and
Al Smith at Roosevelt’s family home in Hyde Park, New York. FDR is supporting himself on crutches. August 7, 1924.
FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt at their home in Hyde Park,
New York during the annual pilgrimage of the Dutchess
County Historical Society. September 16, 1927.
